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I'm having trouble making the pattern for matching the urls in a certain directory.
I want to redirect users from mysite.com/posts/some-post.php to mysite.com/posts/some-post meaning that I want to ...

When you have a malformed web.config and try and edit part of it in the GUI it will popup a box saying so and telling you the line it broke on.
Is there a way to access this functionality thought the ...

I have a problem with my apache2.4 configuration. I have multiple services served by the apache reachable through:
www.example.com/http-service/ -> proxy pass config
www.example.com/webservice2/ -> ...

We have a suite of applications that we'd like to deploy to IIS on Win Server 2012 like this:
foo.bar.com => website
foo.bar.com/api => api
foo.bar.com/another_api => another api
etc
we deployed to ...

I am a software developer and I debug a website on my local machine in IIS 7.5. Recently I experienced problems with my machine that would not go away, so I backed up, formatted, resintalled Windows ...

I have a specific file type of .notebook that IIS is blocking. I tried going into request filtering and adding .notebook with allow set to true, but I still get the 404. Anything else in this folder ...

I am trying to optimize the no. of file reads made to "web.config" or "applicationHost.config" by my service. I'm planning to do it by reading the requested configuration into the memory if the same ...

I need to password protect a "dev" subdomain on a server with the web.config file on IIS7. I don't have access to anything besides the files and web.config, so I can't install modules or anything else ...

I am pretty new to IIS and I want to secure access to a management console of a web app.
By design of application there's a virtual directory that's intended for public access, but at the same time ...

I have following lines in my web.config file. All I am trying to achieve is to display a custom error page if anything goes wrong in application. But instead of getting the custom page I get error as ...

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server with IIS7.5 installed.
I need to provide users with read-write access to some directory tree via WebDAV. The same users will also be able to reach the same directories ...

Every doc I can find discusses editing applicationHost.config in notepad to enable this.
The real need:
a) Via appcmd.exe or cmd line tool, enable dynamic compression to be configured in web.config ...

I need to keep the production app settings section outside of Web.config; I don't want keys and other secret information to be kept inside source code repository. However, if I edit the app settings ...

We have some rather lengthy AJAX calls in our app, some of which transmit over 100k of data across a rather slow encrypted network. I'd like to enable G-Zip compression on application/json to speed ...

I am trying to serve a simple proxy application for a web service. For this purpose, I have a HTTP Handler that passes on any request to my website to another website configured in the web.config. The ...

I am running an ASP.NET 4.0 website using IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The site has a number of Web Applications under the main domain (~/site1, ~/site2, ~/site3, etc...). Each Web Application is ...

I'm trying to set up a new website in a Windows Server 2003. In this server there is already a website, classic ASP, in port 80. I'm configuring this new one (ASP.NET 3.5) in port 82 with, actually, ...

I'm having difficulty having a sub folder act differently to the main domain in my web.config for iss.
I want to prevent the sub folder from rewriting to the baselevel index.php and instead re-write ...

We are using load balancing and have three servers for that. On one of the servers the machine.config file had different machine key then the other two machines. Once we updated the machine key and ...

Is there any way to enable keep-alive on IIS 7 in a hosted scenario?
I attempted to use the answer to this SO question Where (or how) is the keep-alive setting in web.config?.
I added the following ...

I am using SQL managment studio 2008 running on an Amazon EC2 machine. I am unable to connect to the database in my asp.net application. The EC2 instance has been set to accept connections over the ...

How can I password protect an IIS directory when I only have FTP access to the server? I can't adjust any IIS settings or add users or anything like that.
The answer to:
IIS Basic Authorization ala ...

if a server response header is added to a config file of a site, does it display in IIS 7 as a server response header?
I am having a problem where a no index response header (tag) is repeatedly being ...